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Old 11-25-10, 09:39 PM
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im lookin to drop my car on springs and was wonderin if anyone has any recommendations. i was lookin at the eibach pro kip and the eibach sportline kit..
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get the sportline because its a 1.4 drop front and rear. IS300s sit way to high so the Sportline would be nice
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eibachs are good. if you can, pair em up with a set of good shocks. i.e. konis or bilstein
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eibachs are the route im gonna do once i get done with my stereo stuff. eibach's and some tokico's im pretty sure...
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I heard about the Tien s techs, seems pretty good but I'm all about coilovers I had the sportlines but they were super soft suspension was kinda screwy. Wasn't on an is so I dunno lemme know where u go wit it cuz I'm leanin towards the s techs if I don't go coils
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yea if i could afford coilovers i would go that route. gonna stick with shocks/springs at this point and upgrade in the future
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When I first bought my car it had the Eibach Pro Kit and I didn't even know it because there wasn't hardly a drop at all, so I bought the Eibach Sportline kit and sold the pro kit and there is a big difference between stock height and the sportline kit, also a big difference between the pro kit and sportline kit.

When I first bought my car with the Pro Kit

After I put the sportline kit on
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Also it is sitting on stock Toyota Struts
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hows the ride quality with those sportlines and stock shocks?
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the ride is really good, it rides almost just as good as it does stock
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damn im likin the way that sits on the sportlines. im also gona just put them on the stock shocks. eventually when they give out ill get new shocks and call em coilovers lol. anyway my dilemma is that i live in tallahassee and the driveways there are steep i hit my front lip all day as it is. is the eibach pro kit really not a noticeable drop? ive read reviews saying it gives it a great look although i havent seen many pics. but the sportlines look sick
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Well the first picture I posted was my car when I bought it with the Eibach Pro Kit. You could get a stock picture and compare it to that one, but personally I don't think the pro kit offers a big drop, it is somewhat noticeable IMO, but I think most people wont really notice it at all.
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